tranche = 'an installment of any kind'

[Dan Goncharoff]

If you search for "tranche of data" you find a lot of use in the UK
and Ireland in the past few years. The link you provided is Irish.
DanG



On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A couple of years ago even the economic sense was obscure. But now:
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> http://www.itma.ie/digitallibrary/print-collection/charlotte-milligan-fox/
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> "1 August 2011: The latest tranche of material has been added to our Digital
> Library."
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> JL
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